3+ Wild Pitches 3 Times in a Season
Posted by Raphy on July 8, 2009
In tonight's game against the Twins, AJ Burnett threw 3 wild pitches in 1 game. While this stat is not that uncommon, Burnett became the first pitcher since 1954 to do it 3 times in 1 season. As for the career record, Burnett now has 4 such career games. Here were the leaders (1954-2009) before tonight's games.
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Nolan Ryan 7 Ind. Games Phil Niekro 7 Ind. Games Tommy John 7 Ind. Games Jim Maloney 6 Ind. Games J.R. Richard 5 Ind. Games Juan Guzman 5 Ind. Games Tom Candiotti 5 Ind. Games John Smoltz 4 Ind. Games Joe Niekro 4 Ind. Games Mike Moore 4 Ind. Games John Lackey 4 Ind. Games Orel Hershiser 4 Ind. Games Ron Darling 4 Ind. Games Tony Cloninger 4 Ind. Games
July 9th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Pete Abe picked up this stat in his blog post this morning!
July 9th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
In the the interest of full disclosure, I actually emailed it to him.
July 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I was curious why baseball-reference doesn't keep track of balks either historically or in current leaderboards.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Kingturtle, they do have balks. It's not on the major leaderboards because, I guess, it's kind of boring, pointless stat. But PI will tell you that Steve Carlton is far and away the all-time leader in balks. And of course it's on every player's page.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Three of the five prominent knuckleball starters are on the list. No Hough or Wakefield, kind of surprising.